Courage is perhaps our most admirable trait. The man, or woman, who possesses it is able to plunge ahead, despite dangers, despite warnings, despite hazards of all kinds, to attack the task at hand. Often, it is indistinguishable from stupidity.

If you're paying attention to your wardrobe, Rudy believed, your mind isn't sufficiently occupied.

Show me what a people admire, and I will tell you everything about them that matters.

Truth, beaten down, may well rise again. But there's a reason it gets beaten down. Usually, we don't like it very much.

The measure of a civilization is in the courage, not of its soldiers, but of its bystanders.

If you want data to survive, carve it in rock.

See what the world looks like from orbit. Well, in that way, at least, there was profit to be had. Nobody could look down at the planet, green and blue, with no borders in evidence and no sign of human habitation, and not get his perspective forever altered.